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Inventories and Net Trade, offset by a fractional pick up in Fixed Investment, a category which will see far more downside in the quarters to come unless oil prices rebound, and the smallest possible increase in ... For those curious what the long-term trend of sequential, not current quarter annualized, GDP growth ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 12/22/2015 - 08:48 - 22 comments - 0 attachments

These mediocre asset returns disguise treacherous trading conditions in past six months. Indeed, Wall Street has been a world of Pain Trades ever since the Fed signaled the end of QE early last year ... growth in recent quarters has caused the cyclical upside to asset prices to fade. Which ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 07/09/2015 - 11:26 - 18 comments - 0 attachments

analysis from Nanex, which proves that in the past 5 years trading is nothing short of a travesty. The ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 11/30/2010 - 17:18 - 25 comments - 0 attachments

$5.1 billion in pretax income, some 1.4 billion, or over a quarter, was from the usual accounting magic ... The provision for credit losses was $296 million in the third quarter of 2013, down $915 million from the second quarter of 2013 and $1.5 billion less than the third quarter of 2012. The provision for ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 10/16/2013 - 06:54 - 19 comments - 0 attachments

raising rates with Junk bonds trading worse that after Lehman...   * * * In the ... September, implying four quarter-point increases in the target range next year, based on the median number ... system: “pull it” geez. a measely quarter geez. a measely quarter point, and the ZH website shits ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 12/16/2015 - 18:00 - 327 comments - 0 attachments

perfectly with last Monday's after-hours spike highs... Signals? or just pure coincidence  (5 times in 5 ... can trade at that price Noone can trade at that price when the print crosses the tape, those are ... How long do the hft guys have How long do the hft guys have to clear their trades? T+3 plus ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 08/10/2015 - 11:42 - 18 comments - 0 attachments

Nasdaq, by going straight to laser. High-frequency trading — the practice of making thousands of algorithmic stock trades per minute — is about to get a big boost in the USA. Anova, a company that specializes in deploying low-latency networks for stock trading, is completing an ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 12/28/2015 - 07:54 - 252 comments - 0 attachments

Just days after China bans Citadel (and its high frequency trading) from trading Chinese ... grown more volatile with the growth of fast trading. As Weiss concludes , " the constant ... securities trading business traded options this year in a trial program on the China Financial Futures ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 08/04/2015 - 13:34 - 46 comments - 0 attachments

three-quarters of trading in some derivatives markets. One top U.S. regulator now wants to catch up.   ... October 2014. Exchanges would need to publish quarterly statistics on the amounts of self-trading ... that have changed markets by trading their own money using complex algorithms and advanced technology ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 11/24/2015 - 09:42 - 31 comments - 0 attachments

Normal). And while not as abysmal as the 56% collapse in the first quarter, in the three months ended May ... million in revenue. CEO Handler blamed that decline on a lack of trading in the market and ... previous quarter, however, the streak of year-over-year declines is now becoming very disturbing for a bank ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 06/21/2015 - 20:36 - 29 comments - 0 attachments

of March and the entire first quarter were quite the wake up call, because while the broader market did manage to recover from down for the year just a few days before the quarter end courtesy of an ... of the year struggle for momentum. The main consensus trades at the start of the year were perhaps; ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 04/01/2014 - 07:46 - 17 comments - 0 attachments

trade is falling at the fastest pace that we have seen since the last financial crisis.  In order not to ... that capital outflows topped $224bn in the second quarter, a level “beyond anything seen historically”. ... Telegraph … Half the shares traded in Shanghai and Shenzhen were suspended . ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 07/24/2015 - 13:10 - 34 comments - 0 attachments

after China's stock market was promptly shut down less than 30 minutes into trading, when it hit the -5% ... trading days so far in 2016, just as we said was the endgame for this massively rigged market back when we ... minutes of actual trading (net of the 15 minute trading halt). "It’s a brutal start of the year, ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 01/07/2016 - 07:34 - 148 comments - 0 attachments

well-broadcasted insistence that the economic skies are blue, storm clouds scud through every realm and quarter ... international trade is evaporating, the president is doing everything possible in Syria to start World War ... bold leap to raise the fed funds rate one measly quarter of a percent, they might finally succeed in ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 12/14/2015 - 17:00 - 68 comments - 0 attachments

No lesser liquidity-providing high-frequency-trading never-a-losing-trade shop than Virtu financial has been 'allowed' to trade Chinese capital markets. Coming just days after ... Financial Inc., one of the world’s biggest high-speed trading firms, has started trading in its 35th ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 08/05/2015 - 20:18 - 21 comments - 0 attachments

appears "managed money" has piled in to the momentum trade. According to CFTC, hedge ... Futures Trading Commission first began tracking the data.   It's not just gold that is ... Expect sub $500 by the end of this decade. Perfect setup... Perfect setup... I'd ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 12/02/2015 - 10:10 - 82 comments - 0 attachments

options and day trading.  A perfectly concocted melding of conflicting stragegies to confuse and appeal to ... of the "hedge fund managers." Turns out E-trade knew precisely who their target audience was ... ahead of him.  An entire QUARTER of outperformance.   SECOND GREAT DEPRESSION IS SECOND GREAT ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 03/18/2015 - 17:57 - 144 comments - 0 attachments

rates" and Capital Flows ALL AT THE SAME TIME? Something has to give because the trade-offs are ... had a quarter every time If I had a quarter every time ZH anouces a "snap" in china I'd be rich ! ... It will suck for all of us, especially those last to see. if I had a quarter every time if I ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 12/22/2015 - 22:38 - 86 comments - 0 attachments

Exchange Traded Fund, JCPenney, SPY) On October 15, two weeks after the end of the third quarter ... On October 15, two weeks after the end of the third quarter, David Tepper appeared on CNBC ... S&P was perfectly acceptable. Which would suggest Tepper was very bullish on risk. Which would suggest ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 11/14/2013 - 17:05 - 32 comments - 0 attachments

stress crushed carry trades and sucked liquidity out of the world, slamming USDJPY, US stocks, bond ... BUYING WALMART IN THE LAST 30 MINUTES OF TRADING TO LIFT THE DOW MAGICALLY OFF THE LOWS ON A DAY WHEN CHINA YET AGAIN HALTS TRADING AND DEVALUES ITS YUAN???? AMERIDUMBS R BROKE AS A FUCKING JOKE BUT ...

Story - Tyler Durden - 01/07/2016 - 19:05 - 270 comments - 0 attachments